Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | July 2, 2019
On Monday's edition of Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace and Never-Trumper David Jolly trashed President Trump for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. According to Wallace, "bad deals are his brand and the idea that he would sacrifice US foreign policy; this is the obvious sort of tail to the head and body we've been following for three years." Jolly argued that President…
Ryan Foley | July 2, 2019
Echoing many of their colleagues on MSNBC, the panel on Deadline: White House Monday had hysterical analysis of President Trump's impromptu meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The Washington Post's Phil Rucker described the President's meeting with Kim as "a big win speaking in terms of propaganda for the North Koreans." Foreign Affairs Journalist Elise Labott argued that "Kim Jong-un…
Ryan Foley | July 1, 2019
On Sunday's edition of MediaBuzz, host Howard Kurtz sat down with Sharyl Attkisson, host of Sinclair's Full Measure.  Kurtz asked Attkisson: "in your view, has the overall mainstream media coverage of this President been not just negative but has it bled over into being hostile?" Attkisson replied to Kurtz's question in the affirmative: "it has." She argued that "we as journalists, regardless of…
Ryan Foley | June 29, 2019
During Real Time Friday night, one of the guests, MSNBC's Joy Reid that we cannot have "a standard immigration debate" because "what we have now is a debate over whether or not the United States is operating concentration camps at our border. We have an almost Geneva Convention level threat to people's lives...We're throwing kids in cages, we're putting up military tents." Host Bill Maher had the…
Ryan Foley | June 28, 2019
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert devoted his entire opening monologue Thursday night to weighing in on the Democratic debate. From his perspective, the night had a clear winner: Kamala Harris. Weighing in on Harris's performance, Colbert declared: "I believe in global warming because tonight Kamala Harris was on fire!" Colbert proceeded to play a clip of Senator Bernie Sanders describing…
Ryan Foley | June 28, 2019
During his opening monologue Thursday night, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert recapped the Democratic debate; taking swipes at Republicans along the way.  Colbert played a clip of Pete Buttigieg talking about how "the Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion." Colbert reacted to that clip: "I don't know, mayor, nowadays, it's less of a cloak and more of a sheet,"…
Ryan Foley | June 27, 2019
During Wednesday’s Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee accused NBC's Chuck Todd of "dropping the ball" by letting President Trump "off with softball questions about where he's going to build his library without once mentioning his many accusers" during his sit-down with President Trump, which aired on Meet the Press Sunday. Bee apparently didn't watch the interview, or she would have known that the…
Ryan Foley | June 26, 2019
As he tossed over to CNN Tonight host Don Lemon, CNN host Chris Cuomo engaged in a conversation with Lemon about the death of an illegal immigrant and his daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande on a journey to the United States.  Most of their back-and-forth basically consisted of advocacy for open borders and trashing the Trump administration and anyone who dares to think that people seeking to…
Ryan Foley | June 24, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence appeared on State of the Union Sunday, where host Jake Tapper obsessed over climate change.  Tapper quoted from Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who said "the climate emergency is likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent."  Tapper described the "climate emergency" as a "priority for the DNI coats" before complaining…
Ryan Foley | June 22, 2019
After unveiling Oprah Winfrey as his dream candidate in 2020, Real Time host Bill Maher predicted that "a suburban dad in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with an above-ground pool, three shotguns, a singing fish on the wall, and a sign that says 'f*** the dog, beware of owner,' he may not be crazy about any of the Democrats running but if he's fed up with Trump, I know he would vote for Oprah because if…